Call of Pripyat is what happens when you take the best elements of Shadow of Chernobyl and Clear Sky, stick them together and add open-world exploration into the mix. After the misstep that was Clear Sky, GSC did a U-turn and went back to what made SoC such fun to play

Set after SoC, you play as an undercover military agent, Alex Degtyarev. You are sent into the zone to find out why a party of helicopters, that were advancing into the Zone after the Brain Scorcher was disabled, crashed

This is the most polished game of the series. 3 HUGE open areas for you to explore, with lots of side missions to do and things to find. The A-Life system is now better then ever, rarely are places truely safe for long, especially at night

Visual and sound indicators are back as well as the need to eat. The story is better than Clear Sky's and whilst this game keeps the horror parts pretty short, the mutants are just as terrifying as always

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20 July 2012